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Torfinn Beer

0000-0003-3509-1654

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torfinn.beer@umu.se

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Research fellow at Department of Clinical Sciences Section: Forensic Medicine

Norrlands universitetssjukhus, Umeå universitet, Klinisk vetenskap Umeå universitet, Klinisk vetenskap, 901 85 Umeå

Publications Publications

Internal blood loss in fatal liver lacerations: determining lethality from relative blood loss

International journal of legal medicine, Springer 2025, Vol. 139 : 293-302

Holmgren, Sandra; Gustafsson, Torfinn

Increased lung weight in fatal intoxications is not unique to opioid drugs

Journal of Forensic Sciences, John Wiley & Sons 2023, Vol. 68, (2) : 518-523

Beer, Torfinn; Eriksson, Anders; Wingren, Carl Johan

Cardiac enlargement in a medicolegal autopsy setting

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Wolters Kluwer 2023, Vol. 44, (4) : 267-272

Beer, Torfinn; Eriksson, Anders; Wingren, Carl Johan

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Journal of Forensic Sciences, John Wiley & Sons 2023, Vol. 68, (3) : 1086-1088

Gustafsson, Torfinn; Bäckstrom, Björn; Ottosson, Anders; et al.

The utility of histology in assessing the cause of death in medico-legal autopsies in selected trauma deaths: suspension-, immersion-, fire-, and traffic-related

Journal of Forensic Sciences, John Wiley & Sons 2023, Vol. 68, (2) : 509-517

Gustafsson, Torfinn; Bäckstrom, Björn; Ottosson, Anders; et al.

An epidemiological perspective on heart and lung weight in cardiac and intoxication deaths

Umeå University medical dissertations, 2196

Beer, Torfinn

Epidemiology of trauma in the subarctic regions of the Nordic countries

BMC Emergency Medicine, BioMed Central 2022, Vol. 22, (1)

Steinvik, Tine; Raatiniemi, Lasse; Mogensen, Brynjólfur; et al.

The utility of lung weight to heart weight ratio as a means to identify suspected drug intoxication deaths in a medico-legal autopsy population

Journal of Forensic Sciences, John Wiley & Sons 2021, Vol. 66, (4) : 1329-1333

Gustafsson, Torfinn; Eriksson, Anders; Wingren, Carl Johan

Diagnostic accuracy of postmortem imaging vs autopsy: a systematic review

European Journal of Radiology, ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD 2017, Vol. 89 : 249-269

Eriksson, Anders; Gustafsson, Torfinn; Hoistad, Malin; et al.

Multivariate linear regression modelling of lung weight in 24,056 Swedish medico-legal autopsy cases

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Elsevier 2017, Vol. 46 : 20-22

Gustafsson, Torfinn; Eriksson, Anders; Wingren, C. J.

Fatal Eurasian brown bear attacks: two Swedish fatalities in modern times

Journal of Forensic Sciences, Wiley-Blackwell 2015, Vol. 60, (6) : 1658-1661

Gustafsson, Torfinn; Eriksson, Anders

Off-road vehicle fatalities: a comparison of all-terrain vehicle and snowmobile accidents in Sweden

International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) Research, Vol. 37 : 12-15

Gustafsson, Torfinn; Eriksson, Anders

Diagnosing cardiac hypertrophy as a potential cause of death in a medico-legal autopsy population

Beer, Torfinn; Eriksson, Anders; Wingren, Carl Johan

Increased lung weight is not unique to fatal opioid intoxications

Beer, Torfinn; Eriksson, Anders; Wingren, Carl Johan

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